OREANDA-NEWS. October 13, 2009. State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin on October 12 met with US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns, who has arrived in Moscow as part of the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The meeting touched on certain practical matters in the context of upcoming talks between Sergey Lavrov and Clinton. Prospects for advancement of the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement, the progress in Geneva Discussions on security in Transcaucasia and issues in Russian and US bilateral relations with CIS states were concretely discussed.